W.Va. High Court Issues Writ Following Objections to Asbestos Case Management Plan

CHARLESTON, W.Va. - The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals has stepped in to decide the fate of a master plan devised to manage the state's asbestos docket. State of West Virginia ex rel. Ronald Allman, et al. v. MacQueen, No. 29767 (W.V. Sup. Ct. App.).

In a writ of mandamus issued July 6, the state's highest court ordered the plan - which calls for the implementation of several single-issue trial groups - be altered to more closely conform with a mandate the Supreme Court issued last year in an attempt to speed some 8,000 asbestos-related claims through the judicial …